Compendious

Five years into the project, in 1806 he published A Sample Glossary from A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, an effort to make a bit of money to support the larger work.

Analyzing Becky Sharp’s Trash 2008

Yale students got a little taste of lexicographical history Thursday afternoon — specifically, “hommony,” “velveteen,” “succotash” and scores of other words courtesy of alumnus Noah Webster – B.A. 1778 — and his Compendious Dictionary of the English Language.

Cupcakes celebrating Noah Webster and his dictionary 2008

A list of words introduced to Noah Webster's Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806.

Wednesday Hangovers 2006

A list of words introduced to Noah Webster's Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806.

Wednesday Hangovers 2006

A list of words introduced to Noah Webster's Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806.

October 2006 2006

Compendious (Gemma's Review and a place on Exaltation)

breakthedark Diary Entry breakthedark 2003

A Compendious Grammar of the Current Corrupt Dialect of the Jargon of Hindostan, (commonly called Moors); with a Vocabulary, English and Moors, Moors and English. 7th edition.

A Teleology of Letters; or, From a 2000

Webster produced no fewer than six dictionaries of various sizes, from his Compendious Dictionary of 1806 to his Dictionary for Primary Schools of 1834.

On Dictionaries 1969

Librarian, exhibiting a Compendious Review or Abstract of our most

Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

Compendious History of the Reformation in _France_, Vol. 1.

The Annual Catalogue: Numb. II. (1738) Or, A new and compleat List of All The New Books, New Editions of Books, Pamphlets, &c. Various